Article posted: 2/7/2010 12:01 AM

'Snowmageddon' blankets Mid-Atlantic in white

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Pedestrians struggle through the snow behind a statue of a man reading in front of the Public Library during a major winter storm in Ashland, Va., Saturday.

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Skiers lapped the Reflecting Pool along the National Mall; others used the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a slope. Hundreds crowded Dupont Circle for a snowball fight organized online, while elsewhere the capital's famed avenues were all but desolate.